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Book Synopsis The Silver Locomotive Mystery by : Edward Marston
Download or read book The Silver Locomotive Mystery written by Edward Marston and published by Allison & Busby. This book was released on 2009-01-07 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1854. As the Cardiff-bound train puffs out of Paddington Station, young Hugh Kellow wraps a protective arm around his large valise. He has been entrusted with a priceless silver coffee pot, designed in the shape of a locomotive, by his elderly silversmith employer. But two of Hugh's fellow passengers are taking an enormous interest in the young man and his precious cargo. When a dead body is discovered in a room at the Cardiff Railway Hotel, beside an empty valise, the great Railway Detective Robert Colbeck and his trusty sergeant Victor Leeming are called in to investigate; and face a whole host of unexpected problems.
Book Synopsis Daring and Suffering by : William Pittenger
Download or read book Daring and Suffering written by William Pittenger and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Great Train Robbery by : Michael Crichton
Download or read book The Great Train Robbery written by Michael Crichton and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park comes classic historical thriller about Victorian London’s most notorious gold heist. London, 1855, when lavish wealth and appalling poverty exist side by side, one mysterious man navigates both worlds with perfect ease. Edward Pierce preys on the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of his century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England’s industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, but studded with all the suspense and style of fiction, here is a classic historical thriller, set a decade before the age of dynamite—yet nonetheless explosive…
Download or read book Mystery Train written by Carolyn Keene and published by Simon Pulse. This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nancy Drew and the Hardy boys are on a private train from Chicago to San Francisco investigating the theft of the Comstock diamond.
Book Synopsis The Mystery of the Blue Train by : Agatha Christie
Download or read book The Mystery of the Blue Train written by Agatha Christie and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agatha Christie’s beloved detective Hercule Poirot solves the murder of an American heiress by restaging her final journey by night train—with all of the suspects aboard. When the fabled Blue Train, the luxury overnight passenger express to the Riviera, arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to awaken Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But the wealthy American socialite will never wake again, for a brutal blow has killed her, disfiguring her almost beyond recognition. What is more, her famously valuable rubies are missing. The prime suspect is Ruth’s estranged husband, Derek. Yet Hercule Poirot is not convinced, and so he stages an eerie reenactment of the journey—with all of the suspected murderers aboard. A VINTAGE CLASSIC MYSTERY
Download or read book Mystery Train written by Greil Marcus and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect gift for music fans and anyone who loves artists like Elvis Presley, Randy Newman, Sly Stone, Robert Johnson, and Harmonica Frank. In 1975, Greil Marcus’s Mystery Train changed the way readers thought about rock ’n’ roll and continues to be sought out today by music fans and anyone interested in pop culture. Looking at recordings by six key artists—Robert Johnson, Harmonica Frank, Randy Newman, the Band, Sly Stone, and Elvis Presley—Marcus offers a complex and unprecedented analysis of the relationship between rock ‘n’ roll and American culture. In this latest edition, Marcus provides an extensively updated and rewritten Note and Discographies section, exploring the recordings’ evolution and continuing impact.
Author :Gertrude Chandler Warner Publisher :Random House Books for Young Readers ISBN 13 :080755426X Total Pages :129 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (75 download)
Book Synopsis The Mystery on the Train by : Gertrude Chandler Warner
Download or read book The Mystery on the Train written by Gertrude Chandler Warner and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a train trip with Aunt Jane from Boston to San Francisco, the Aldens meet a young art student who is worried about making the journey alone.Then their new friend's irreplaceable portfolio is stolen! Will the Aldens be able to find her work before the culprit disembarks?
Book Synopsis The Highland Falcon Thief: Adventures on Trains #1 by : M. G. Leonard
Download or read book The Highland Falcon Thief: Adventures on Trains #1 written by M. G. Leonard and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Highland Falcon Thief: Adventures on Trains #1, a middle-grade series starter from MG Leonard and Sam Sedgman, a young boy is swept up in an investigation to uncover the perpetrator of a jewel theft. When eleven-year-old Harrison "Hal" Beck is forced to accompany his travel-writer uncle on the last journey of a royal train, he expects a boring trip spent away from video games and children his age. But then Hal spots a girl who should not be on board, and he quickly makes friends with the stowaway, Lenny. Things get even more interesting when the royal prince and princess board for the last leg of the journey—because the princess's diamond necklace is soon stolen and replaced with a fake! Suspicion falls on the one person who isn't supposed to be there: Lenny. It's up to Hal, his keen observation, and his skill as a budding sketch artist to uncover the real jewel thief, clear his friend's name, and return the diamond necklace before The Highland Falcon makes its last stop.
Download or read book The Stolen Train written by Robert Ashley and published by Apple. This book was released on 1997-07-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrays how a group of Union soldiers steal a train from the Confederates and take it to Chattanooga.
Book Synopsis The Invention of Hugo Cabret by : Brian Selznick
Download or read book The Invention of Hugo Cabret written by Brian Selznick and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An orphan and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy train station. He desperately believes a broken automaton will make his dreams come true. But when his world collides with an eccentric girl and a bitter old man, Hugo's undercover life are put in jeopardy. Turn the pages, follow the illustrations and enter an unforgettable new world!
Book Synopsis The Great Locomotive Chase by : William Pittenger
Download or read book The Great Locomotive Chase written by William Pittenger and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Railway Adventures and Anecdotes by : Richard Pike
Download or read book Railway Adventures and Anecdotes written by Richard Pike and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis How to Get Away with Myrtle (Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery 2) by : Elizabeth C. Bunce
Download or read book How to Get Away with Myrtle (Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery 2) written by Elizabeth C. Bunce and published by Algonquin Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myrtle Hardcastle, your favorite amateur detective, is back to solve another murder (committed on a train headed for an English seaside village with a tragic past) in the second installment of the delightful Victorian cozy mystery series for middle-grade readers.
Download or read book Alpha Wave written by James Axler and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the postapocalyptic world of Deathlands, the past and its way of life are as obsolete as myth. Now the days are filled with death, violence and little promise. Still, the human spirit endures, and a group of intrepid warrior survivalists dare to believe that out there, something better is on offer. If they live long enough to find it. Across the flat plains of the Dakotas, an iron horse shrieks and rumbles across refurbished tracks. Inside the boxcars, Ryan Cawdor and his companions face trouble unlike any other. Jak is missing, Krysty is dying and the train is loaded with sec men, whitecoats and a horrifying experiment—a baron with psionic abilities using stolen children to fuel his mad dream for mind control of every living soul in Deathlands.
Download or read book Ghost Train written by Bill Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HAS A NAZI GOLD TRAIN BEEN HIDDEN IN A MOUNTAIN TUNNEL SINCE WORLD WAR II? Paul Silver, an international businessman and amateur adventurer, arrives in Berlin looking for information about a fabled Nazi train full of priceless objects and gold. Along with answers he finds a deranged man who hated him in the past, a man who wants revenge more than life itself. There have been rumors for decades about a train filled with so much wealth it could fund Hitler's dream of a Fourth Reich. A Romanian family believes its patriarch, one of Hitler's trusted officers, possesses a coded diary - a book that will lead to vast treasure hidden somewhere in Europe at the end of the war. Paul soon learns nothing is as it should be. A hundred-year-old murderer, a gypsy fortune-teller, a trio of greedy relatives and a search for the mysterious Nazi train lead Paul Silver on the most exciting adventure of his life.
Download or read book Train written by Tom Zoellner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic and revelatory narrative of the most important transportation technology of the modern world In his wide-ranging and entertaining new book, Tom Zoellner—coauthor of the New York Times–bestselling An Ordinary Man—travels the globe to tell the story of the sociological and economic impact of the railway technology that transformed the world—and could very well change it again. From the frigid trans-Siberian railroad to the antiquated Indian Railways to the Japanese-style bullet trains, Zoellner offers a stirring story of this most indispensable form of travel. A masterful narrative history, Train also explores the sleek elegance of railroads and their hypnotizing rhythms, and explains how locomotives became living symbols of sex, death, power, and romance.
Book Synopsis The First Great Train Robbery by : David C. Hanrahan
Download or read book The First Great Train Robbery written by David C. Hanrahan and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 1855, the citizens of Victorian Great Britain were shocked to read in their morning edition of The Times that 12,000 pounds worth of gold bars and other valuables had been stolen from a train travelling between London and Paris--without explosives or violence! Who did it and how was a great mystery which was finally solved.
